Anti-Reactionary Bookshelf

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Disclaimer: not all works are created equal.

## Feminism

Shulamith Firestone - Dialectic of Sex [MARXIST] [MUST READ]
http://scribd.com/doc/141763824/Firestone-Dialectic-of-Sex

Sylvia Walby - Theorizing Patriarchy (what academic feminism actually looks like)
http://libcom.org/files/Theorizing%20Patriarchy%20-%20Sylvia%20Walby.pdf

Silvia Federici - Revolution at Point Zero [MARXIST]
https://anonfiles.com/file/095a946611622e5473726ffd95eb6ca6


## Political and Social Philosophy

Habermas - A Very Short Introduction [MARXIST] [MUST READ] (probably my favourite leftist philosopher)
http://m.friendfeed-media.com/c94b3f770eec359b4c18ed171f11f1d15d973611

Amartya Sen - On Economic Inequality
http://en.bookfi.org/book/1080262

Eric Hobsbawm - How to Change the World. Reflections on Marx and Marxism [MARXIST] (brief history of Marxist thought)
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/10221431/Eric_Hobsbawm_-_How_to_Change_the_World._Reflections_on_Marx_and

Niccolo Machiavelli - Discourses on Livy (in some sense the first anti-Reactionary political thinker)
http://www.constitution.org/mac/disclivy.pdf
Brief summary of Machiavelli's Republican thought: [MUST READ]
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/machiavelli/#6

G.A. Cohen - Why Not Socialism? (brief defense of socialism as an ethos)
http://en.bookfi.org/book/724940

Erik Olin Wright - Envisioning Real Utopias and older works [MARXIST] (a pretty cool modern libertarian Marxist)
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/

Corey Robin - The Reactionary Mind [MUST READ] (https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/status/469578577206603776)
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7874543/The_Reactionary_Mind_-_Corey_Robin_%5BQwerty80%5D_

Gerry Mackie - Democracy Defended (not particularly leftist)
http://en.bookfi.org/book/742309

## History

Eric Hobsbawm - The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire, The Age of Extremes [MARXIST] (not-so-brief Marxist history of the Western world, 1789-1991)
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6565967/Eric_Hobsbawm_4_ebooks

E.P. Thompson - The Making of the English Working Class [MARXIST]
https://libcom.org/files/Thompson%20EP%20-%20The%20Making%20of%20the%20English%20Working%20Class.pdf

David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years (very interesting and original anarchist take on political economy and anthropology)
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7159571/David_Graeber_-_Debt_The_First_5000_Years

Daron Acemoglu - Why Nations Fail
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/9165789/Why_Nations_Fail__The_Origins_of_Power___-_Daron_Acemoglu.epub


## Class in America

Frances Fox Piven - Poor People's Movements; Why They Succeed, How They Fail
http://libcom.org/files/%5BFrances_Fox_Piven,_Richard_Cloward%5D_Poor_People%27s%28Bookos.org%29%281%29.pdf

David Simon - The Corner
http://www.general-ebooks.com/read/317103

P.S. *do* read Chris Dillow's blog; lots of useful entries like this http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2012/03/marx-was-right.html